Green Energy
U of T Accepts Thesis on "Racist" Holocaust Education Programs
Jenny Peto
Read the fullscandal story here.
- Norway: Anti-racism Group Demands Jews Be Excluded From Kristallnacht Memorial Event
Norway: Anti-racism group demands Jews be excluded from Kristallnacht memorial event An anti-racism group called "Nye SOS Rasisme" will not take part in the general Kristallnacht memorial march in Bergen, since their demand to exclude representatives...
- The Importance Of Defending Ourselves
Benjamin Netanyahu has given his speech for Holocaust Memorial Day, and said the following: The six million Jews who were murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust were remembered on Sunday in ceremonies held across the nation at sundown, the eve of...
- Uc Irvine: Hotbed Of Islamic Anti-semitism
Muslim anti-Semitism is so bad a UCI that the US Senate Judiciary Commitee has demanded that the Dept. of Education Investigate the problem. But, that doesn't stop the Orange County Register from denying there is anti-Semitism at UCI: The following...
- And Just When You Think Jimmy Carter's Stupidity Reaches Apogee..
Jimmy, I hate to ask this of a man I once voted for, but, do you have a big white sheet with a pointy hat in a closet somewhere? Jimmy Carter: Too many Jews on Holocaust council (Also known as ..."Too many jews in Israel, btw ,, or NYC for that matter,...
- Confronting The Holocaust Deniers In Tehran
THIS CHANUKAH WE MUST CONFRONT THE HOLOCAUST DENIERS IN TEHRAN (hat tip, EuroKafir) Excerpts From Survivor Testimony "WITNESS TO THE TRUTH" Conference: Toronto: "To those who deny the Holocaust ever happened I would like them to personally explain to...
Green Energy
U of T Accepts Thesis on "Racist" Holocaust Education Programs
Jenny PetoThe University of Toronto has come under attack for accepting a Masters’ thesis which calls two Holocaust education programs “racist.”The thesis, written by Jenny Peto, a Jewish activist with the Coalition Against Apartheid Israel, slams both the March of Remembrance and Hope, which brings young adults of diverse backgrounds together with Holocaust survivors to sites of Nazi violence in Poland, and the March of the Living Canada, part of an global program that brings young Jews and survivors to Poland and Israel.
In her thesis, titled “The Victimhood of the Powerful: White Jews, Zionism and the Racism of Hegemonic Holocaust Education,” Peto argues the programs in question cause Jews to believe they are innocent victims. In reality, she writes, they are privileged white people who "cannot see their own racism."
The "construction of a victimized Jewish identity," Peto argues, is intentional, and produces "effects that are extremely beneficial to the organized Jewish community" and to "apartheid" Israel.
She further questions "the implications of white Jews taking it upon themselves to educate people of colour about genocide, racism and intolerance."
According to Carla Wittes, director of the Canadian Centre for Diversity, Peto “makes unwarranted claims and false statements about our philosophy, our goals and objectives and our methodology. . .
We were shocked and offended to read the thesis. We are a nonfaith- based organization concerned with educating people about the dangers of discrimination, and the Holocaust is obviously a prime example.”
Irving Abella, a Canadian historian, as well as the former president of the Canadian Jewish Congress, told the Toronto Star that the thesis is "not scholarship, it's ideology. It's totally ahistorical; I found it full of untruths and distortions and held together by fatuous and very flabby analysis. It borders on anti-Semitism."
Abella also noted that he is “appalled that it would be acceptable to a major university."Holocaust survivors who have partaken in both programs have also called the thesis hurtful. Retired University of British Columbia sociology professor Werner Cohn penned a letter to University of Toronto President David Naylor, saying the thesis "makes wild charges against [Peto's] fellow Jews without a shred of evidence," the Canadian Jewish News reported.
Peto, who was part of a group that tried to occupy Toronto's Israeli Consulate in 2009, said the entire controversy is an effort by "right-wing, pro-Israel groups and individuals."
"This is not the first time I have been dragged through the mud by pro-Israel groups," she told the Star, "and I am sure it will not be that last."
Read the full
- Norway: Anti-racism Group Demands Jews Be Excluded From Kristallnacht Memorial Event
Norway: Anti-racism group demands Jews be excluded from Kristallnacht memorial event An anti-racism group called "Nye SOS Rasisme" will not take part in the general Kristallnacht memorial march in Bergen, since their demand to exclude representatives...
- The Importance Of Defending Ourselves
Benjamin Netanyahu has given his speech for Holocaust Memorial Day, and said the following: The six million Jews who were murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust were remembered on Sunday in ceremonies held across the nation at sundown, the eve of...
- Uc Irvine: Hotbed Of Islamic Anti-semitism
Muslim anti-Semitism is so bad a UCI that the US Senate Judiciary Commitee has demanded that the Dept. of Education Investigate the problem. But, that doesn't stop the Orange County Register from denying there is anti-Semitism at UCI: The following...
- And Just When You Think Jimmy Carter's Stupidity Reaches Apogee..
Jimmy, I hate to ask this of a man I once voted for, but, do you have a big white sheet with a pointy hat in a closet somewhere? Jimmy Carter: Too many Jews on Holocaust council (Also known as ..."Too many jews in Israel, btw ,, or NYC for that matter,...
- Confronting The Holocaust Deniers In Tehran
THIS CHANUKAH WE MUST CONFRONT THE HOLOCAUST DENIERS IN TEHRAN (hat tip, EuroKafir) Excerpts From Survivor Testimony "WITNESS TO THE TRUTH" Conference: Toronto: "To those who deny the Holocaust ever happened I would like them to personally explain to...